Re: BIG Problem...need BIG Medicine

2001-03-28 Thread Peter Cordes
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 11:01:55AM -0500, W. Crowshaw wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 04:47:39AM -0400, Peter Cordes wrote: > > > > grep -l '^[\./]*bin/' /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list | # find pkgs with file in > > /bin > > sed -e sX/var/lib/dpkg/info/XX -e 'sX\.list$XX' | # strip down to pkg nam

Re: BIG Problem...need BIG Medicine

2001-03-28 Thread W. Crowshaw
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 05:13:51AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > > zcat base2_2.tgz | tar -xvf - ./bin > > in your root filesystem, which you can mount on /mnt (from the boot > floppy) like so: > > mount -t ext2 /dev/hdaX /mnt > > hdaX being your root partition. > > > -- > Ethan Benson > ht

Re: BIG Problem...need BIG Medicine

2001-03-28 Thread W. Crowshaw
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 04:47:39AM -0400, Peter Cordes wrote: > > grep -l '^[\./]*bin/' /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list | # find pkgs with file in > /bin > sed -e sX/var/lib/dpkg/info/XX -e 'sX\.list$XX' | # strip down to pkg name > xargs apt-get --reinstall install # reinstall them. > Thank you SO

Re: BIG Problem...need BIG Medicine

2001-03-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 04:47:39AM -0400, Peter Cordes wrote: > > BTW, you'll need to manually download grep and sed packages, since they > live in /bin! :( Or you could do it with perl. or if you can boot from the floppies/cd and have the base2_2.tgz file you can extract just /bin which will

Re: BIG Problem...need BIG Medicine

2001-03-28 Thread Peter Cordes
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 08:37:34PM -0800, William Crowshaw wrote: > O.K., I am a little embarrased to admit it but I just > remove the all important /bin directory. Am I simply > screwed? Do I need to do a clean install? If not, > how do I re-install the missing apps? > > Any advice would be GR

BIG Problem...need BIG Medicine

2001-03-27 Thread William Crowshaw
O.K., I am a little embarrased to admit it but I just remove the all important /bin directory. Am I simply screwed? Do I need to do a clean install? If not, how do I re-install the missing apps? Any advice would be GREATLY appreciated. THANKS, wcrowshaw __